You can find jumping spiders in gardens or on sunny walls, especially in the spring and summer. Don't try to keep them captive unless you can give them food and proper space, though. Assuming you live in North America and are a weirdo like me that likes to read Wikipedia, here's an article about your friendly neighborhood jumpyboi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_audax

also the title of "most intelligent spider" is held by Portia Fimbriata, another jumper. Here's a BBC video showcasing their amazing hunting skills.

The wiki in the side bar is quite comprehensive, although it is still under construction and I can't recall seeing any podcasts. In fact, I was visiting just to use some resources when I saw this post :)

Also, doesn't Ballymore seat 18k maximum? With 9k members and maybe 2k tickets, surely it can handle 11k people? Especially if many are families/groups of 3-5 who come in 1 car. That's only like 3,500 cars presuming every single person who attended drove there.. It's a shame it's been forgotten about. Any chance QLD gov can help out with some minor renovations?

Yeah of course there is a solution, throw money at the problem. Unfortunately the cost/benefit is pretty unfavourable in this case.

This is one of those things that I wish I could just show you, you'd understand straight away.

It is located in a fairly well off residential part of town, these people don't want a swarm of battle-frenzied supporters moving through their neighbourhood on a fortnightly basis 6 months a year.

And that is what the area is, a quiet neighbourhood, small streets, no footpaths. The stadium is in a long thin park that follows breakfast creek which has very little lighting and a drowning hazard.

When I say no infrastructure, there really is nothing more than a bike path, the carpark is grass, there is nowhere to store thousands of people safely while they wait for a bus.

The local trainstation is an 800m walk through the dark park, over a small footbridge and straight through the unprepared neighbourhood. Wilston traino is not large enough anyway and is on the other side of a busy road.

Everything would need replacing and a bunch of stuff would need to be built from scratch where there is very little space to do so.

Fair enough, I understand what you're saying. Even if the government tried to help, it wouldn't just be the stadium (like AAMI Park for example). They'd have to re-build footpaths, bridges, lighting, train stations, parking lots etc, which the locals would most likely protest against. Understood...

Where do all the Rugby League & Union teams play in QLD then? Just out of curiosity.

Suncorp was practically rebuilt for League. There's the Wally Lewis statue and a floor plaque for every player who's pulled on a maroon jersey out the front. Top level union also plays at Suncorp.

Ballymore is used for competitive Qld league union but not a lot more. It has been the Roars training ground for quite a while. It gets a lot of use, but only for stuff that doesn't draw a serious crowd.

I usually don't bother memorizing songs because I built a site to store all my song chords. It's easy to read and play along to songs because the display is multi-column and you don't have to scroll.

If you do want to memorize songs, I suggest looking for patterns in the chords progressions and the fingerpicking. Music theory knowledge helps a lot because then you can internalize what, say, a I V vi V chord progression is and see how the same pattern is applied in multiple songs. For example, four chord songs (i.e. Viva la Vida) are easy because you repeat the same four chords in the same rhythm for the entire song.

Computer assisted targeting to account for wind direction and air speed is the first thing I thought of when looking at the video, hitting a target twice at the same time from different angles with the same launcher/gun.

I think Brisbane is a good location for an expansion team, adding another rivalry in a city without one will help the competition as a whole.

Without knowing Brisbane we'll though, there are a couple of conditions that should come with it to differentiate from Roar

some kind of geographical difference to the Roar, it's an easy way to draw a line between the teams

Should have its own stadium (small size between 12-20k is fine)

Must be central to transport and a population base

Outside of Brisbane I think the 12th licence should go to a new market. Either Wollongong, Hobart or Canberra given their close proximity to other teams - they should be cheaper to run with reduced transport costs, and it's easier for away fans to travel. The footprint of the a-league must grow and smaller less saturated markets might be a way to build a bigger national support base, as well as pathways for younger players.

Further expansion beyond that would make sense in Sydney, Melbourne or Perth.

Reducing the salary cap floor could help smaller teams and bring more youth through the system too.

Within Brisbane there is a north/south of the river geographical divide that could be exploited. Unfortunately the existing club's catchment (and the way it was formed) doesn't really allow for that to be organic and meaningful.

Just jump in. It's easy to look at the sandstone and feel like you don't belong, but if you can tough it out you're well within that cohort. That said, it's more difficult than any full time job I've had before study.

My point is that footballers have fame thrust upon them. They don't seek it out. The fact that lots of children watch them doesn't make them responsible for those children in any way. If a footballer wants to take on some level of responsibility then good for them, but ultimately the only people who are obligated to be good role models for children are their parents and teachers.

I grew up in England in the 90s where the Premier League featured a relatively high number of heavy-drinking, cocaine snorting footballers. You'll be surprised to learn that most children of my generation didn't suddenly become alcoholic cocaine addicts.

I don't think the notion is that footballers should be good role models - but people in general (including footballers) should be good role models. Yes it's a responsibility, but that is what it is to be an adult.

I am not saying people (in general) can't/shouldn't go on a cocaine bender every now and again, as long as they turn up to work the next day (honouring the promise that they made) and don't hurt or upset anyone else (respecting others/golden rule) then their effectiveness as a role model hasn't been tarnished.

Footballers should be held to the same standards as other adults and not act like children. That is what is being said.

Also, they don't seek out fame? Please, of course they do, we all do. That is how you get chicks and money any honest bloke will tell you that. If you haven't figured that out by now, you're welcome.

people in general (including footballers) should be good role models. Yes it's a responsibility, but that is what it is to be an adult.

Totally. I'm not defending Neymar at all, he comes across as a complete arsehole. I just mean that his role as a footballer doesn't suddenly mean I expect him to be any better than anyone else I encounter.

Footballers should be held to the same standards as other adults and not act like children. That is what is being said.

I don't think that's what's being said at all. This whole line about footballers being role models implies precisely the opposite - it suggests that footballers are held to higher standards than 'normal' people. Why? If we were all being held to the same set of standards then people would be just as angry any time someone sets a bad example by, say, speeding or drinking too much.

Also, they don't seek out fame? Please, of course they do, we all do.

Speak for yourself man. We really don't all seek out fame. I'm not famous and it hasn't prevented me from 'getting chicks' as you put it, nor from earning decent money. If the women you're meeting are only interested in rich, famous men then you're probably meeting the wrong women. Try a conversation with one next time. You're welcome.

Agree to disagree on most topics. Semantics of definition of fame is where we differ on the last point. No need to be a jerk in the last sentence. If you happen to be an outlier, it does not mean I am not allowed to talk about what is normal like it is normal.

I do a lot of maths by hand, when I'm doing algebra I use plenty of letters that I would use when I'm not doing maths. Depending on if I am doing maths or not dictates how they look.

For example:

Doing maths my x variable always looks like a backwards c attached to a forwards c so as not to be confused with a multiplication/cross product sign, whereas in handwriting my x's look just like verdana x's that you are reading now.

In maths my z has a dash across it just like the 7 in the op so as not to get confused with a 2, whereas in handwriting again it looks like the verdana z.

In maths my lower case L (l) looks kind of like a buzz blob from LoZ - A Link to the Past if he had a hole where his face was so as not to get confused with a 1, which in maths looks like a simple vertical line. Handwritten my l's look like the verdana vertical line.

In maths my u's always have a tail as they are often used with v's, and my v's tend to be lazily drawn without a distinct corner at the bottom. In handwriting both kind of just look like sleepy c's lying on their back, but context dictates differentiation.

These sorts of things are easily solvable with things like dashes across 7's, and can cause big problems if not addressed. I can remember thinking it was weird when I first saw a foreign kid do it in primary school, but actually adopted it a few years later when I sold some stuff for the wrong price. Have always done it since, and as above, have adopted other techniques to keep my maths safe in the years since.

Maybe learn to read the news from all angles and read reddit a little less? Outside the echo chamber here and in the real world, it's a very obvious and well established thing that CNN is biased garbage. They're the liberal version of fox, similar to how huff post is the liberal version of Breitbart

FFA had their chance to take back the licence the 2nd time pay didn't happen. The club would have gone through a really difficult FFA owned period by now. But we're still stuck in the mire. Good job all round rein holders.